MISRULE IN AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20842, 8 April 1931, Page 9

MISRULE IN AUSTRALIA.

SLANG GOVERNMENT.

NEW STATE MOVEMENT.

CONSTITUTION DRAFTED.

DELEGATES' APPROVAL.

MEETING IN THE NORTH.

By Teiesn'^ph—Press Association—Copyright

April 7, P. 35 p.m.)

SYDNEY, April 7.

'A draft- constitution for a new Federal Tinit. which it is proposed to call New England, was adopted to-day by 150 delegates from the northern portion of New South Wales at a meeting in the Town Hall, Maitland, 120 miles north of Sydney.

The speakers emphasised the- fact that the movement was due to misgovernment end chiefly to the repudiation by the New South Wales Government of its national obligations. Dr. Earlo Page, Leader of the Country Party, who is the outstanding figure in the new State movement, said: We must find a better way of governing ourselves because the existing way has brought dishonour upon us."

LABOUK MOVEMENT.

HARM FROM LANG FACTION.

EXPULSION LONG OVERDUE,

(Received April 7, 8.45 p.m.)

PERTH. April 7,

"Mr. A. McCallum, Labour member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembl.j for South Fremantle, returned today from attending tho Federal Labour Conference at Canberra. Ho said the recent! expulsion of the New South Wales Labour executive from tho Australian Labour Party was inevitable. It should have been clone years ago.

Sydney had been a festering sore on the Labour movement for years. A coterie had formulated its own policy which in its essence was fundamentally opposed to the Labour movement. Mr. 'McCallum said he had been told that Mr. Lang's repudiation plan had not been placed before the New South Wales' Cabinet, The first the members of that Cabinet knew of it was when the plan was published in tho press. There was no fear whatever of any of the other following Mr. Lang's examp e. BAN ON imperialism. NEW SOUTH WALES LABOUR. SCHOOL SYLLABUS REVISION. SYDNEY, April 7. Prof/ests against the continued observance of Empire Day and the flag-saluting ceremonies at schools are contained in a report of the Advisory Education Committee of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labour Party, which was submitted to tho Easter Conference in Sydney to-day. Tho'/New South Wales Minister of Education, Mr. W. Davies, was instructed to revise the school syllabus, eliminating " Imperial bias" and providing for instruction that will give an " adequate conception of the struggles of the working class history."

ELECTION PROSPECT.

VIEWS OF POLITICIANS.

GOVERNMENT CONDEMNED.

MELBOURNE, April 7,

Cornmenting on the remark made by the Prime Minister, Mr. J. 11. Scullin, at the Federal Labour Conference at Melbourne to the effect that should the Fiduciary Currency Bill be rejected by tho Senate ho would at once go to the country, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. J. G. Latham, said lie did not doubt that the' Senate would reject the bill. A message from Hobart states that Mr. J A Lyons said: " The sooner we go to the country the belter. We have felt for a long time that the Government has absolutely lost the confidence of the people of the Commonwealth."